Imagine having a giant mob willing to march and take the fucking capitol, doing it while the police supported you and the army looked to their bellies, and not even getting concesions out of it. WORSE: your movement and party is shitting itself after it.
I really believe they could have pulled something IF Trump wasn't Trump.
Which is why I’m scared of Cotton or Hawley, They need to be nipped in the bud now. They’re both extremely dangerous for progress and human rights
that assumes they have charisma and they do not but it doesn't mean they can't be trained
Hawley is basically sideshow bob in the field of rakes after this. He fucked up bad trying to play to the fascists and now he just looks like an idiot.
We can laugh, but I'm sure there are a dozens of republican senators who are livid at Hawley (and Cruz) right now. they won't say it, terrified of the base, but I don't see how he gets any institutional support for a run.
To be fair, Trump and Cruz had zero institutional support for a run and they were the only candidates to get any meaningful voter support in the 2016 primary. Their base has only moved farther right since. Unlike the Dems, the old guard GOP has long since lost control of their primary voters.